United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 150United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1894 - Courts |
Contents
| 321 | |
| 324 | |
| 334 | |
| 336 | |
| 342 | |
| 353 | |
| 360 | |
| 361 | |
| 57 | |
| 60 | |
| 61 | |
| 62 | |
| 74 | |
| 78 | |
| 84 | |
| 98 | |
| 99 | |
| 100 | |
| 107 | |
| 111 | |
| 118 | |
| 133 | |
| 134 | |
| 137 | |
| 138 | |
| 141 | |
| 143 | |
| 145 | |
| 150 | |
| 152 | |
| 155 | |
| 159 | |
| 164 | |
| 176 | |
| 182 | |
| 183 | |
| 191 | |
| 205 | |
| 207 | |
| 216 | |
| 223 | |
| 229 | |
| 239 | |
| 241 | |
| 244 | |
| 245 | |
| 246 | |
| 249 | |
| 253 | |
| 254 | |
| 260 | |
| 265 | |
| 267 | |
| 275 | |
| 276 | |
| 280 | |
| 287 | |
| 288 | |
| 299 | |
| 300 | |
| 301 | |
| 306 | |
| 364 | |
| 372 | |
| 379 | |
| 392 | |
| 399 | |
| 409 | |
| 419 | |
| 433 | |
| 436 | |
| 441 | |
| 442 | |
| 453 | |
| 480 | |
| 491 | |
| 495 | |
| 504 | |
| 515 | |
| 522 | |
| 540 | |
| 547 | |
| 549 | |
| 564 | |
| 572 | |
| 586 | |
| 591 | |
| 593 | |
| 597 | |
| 606 | |
| 610 | |
| 627 | |
| 633 | |
| 637 | |
| 657 | |
| 661 | |
| 665 | |
| 674 | |
| 676 | |
| 698 | |
| 705 | |
| 707 | |
| 709 | |
| 713 | |
| 715 | |
| 717 | |
| 718 | |
| 719 | |
| 727 | |
| 731 | |
| 732 | |
| 737 | |
| 740 | |
| 742 | |
| 746 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
act of March action adverse possession affirmed Aliunde alleged amount appeal appellee application authority bill of exceptions bonds certificate charge cheque Circuit Court citizens commissioners complainant Congress construction contract corporation counsel Court of Claims court of equity creditors decree defendant in error delivered the opinion Detroit River dismiss district attorney Emmet O'Neal entitled evidence fact filed firm front-plate grant held high seas infringement invention issued judgment jurisdiction jury JUSTICE lakes land Lane & Bodley letters patent lode ment Morse mortgage motion murder navigable October October 23 October 30 owner parties payment petition petitioner plaintiff in error possession present proceedings purchase purpose question railroad company Railway Company received record Revised Statutes river rule Russian-American Company Stat Statement steamers suit Supreme Court term Territory testimony thereof timber tion trial trust United United States attorney verdict vessels waters witnesses writ of error
Popular passages
Page 659 - That the circuit courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 249 - Every person who, upon the high seas, or in any arm of the sea, or in any river, haven, creek, basin, or bay, within the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular state...
Page 283 - When committed upon the high seas, or on any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State...
Page 605 - In every action for the recovery of money only, or specific real property, the jury, in their discretion, may render a general or special verdict. In all other cases, the court may direct the jury to find a special verdict in writing, upon all or any of the issues...
Page 190 - No county, city, township, school district or other municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 587 - If no adverse claim shall have been filed with the register and the receiver of the proper land office at the expiration of the sixty days of publication, it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent, upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists ; and thereafter DEL MONTE MIN.
Page 694 - On the starboard s'ide, a green light, of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least two miles, and so constructed as to show a uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass...
Page 500 - The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance; their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved; but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed.
Page 659 - States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or in which there shall be a controversy between citizens of different States, or a controversy between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States, or a controversy between citizens of a State and foreign States, citizens, or subjects...
Page 590 - You, therefore, are hereby commanded that such proceedings be had in said cause as, according to right and justice, and the laws of the United States, ought to be had, the said appeal notwithstanding.
Bibliographic information
| Title | United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 150 |
| Authors | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner |
| Publisher | Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1894 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 27 Jul 2007 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |